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A Solution infrastructure detail
The following table is a detailed inventory of the hardware and software configuration in the test environment.
A detailed inventory of the hardware and software configuration in the test environment
Solution configuration - Hardware components:
Description
Blade Enclosure
PowerEdge M1000e chassis:
CMC firmware: 4.20
Storage host enclosure
10 GbE Blade
Servers
(4) PowerEdge M620 server:
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
BIOS version: 1.4.9
iDRAC firmware: 1.23.23
(2) Intel® Xeon® E5-2650
128GB RAM
Dual Broadcom 57810S-k 10 GbE CNA
Driver v7.4.23.0
Firmware v7.4.8
PS Series EqualLogic Host Integration
Toolkit v4.0.0
Storage hosts for configs:
M-Series MXL with LAG
interconnect
S-Series S4810P with VLTi
S-Series S4810P with VLTi /
MXL with VLT LAG uplinks
S-Series S4810P with VLTi / M-
Series I/O Aggregator with VLT
LAG uplinks
10 GbE Blade
I/O modules
(2) M-Series MXL
FTOS v8.3.16.2
(2) 40 GbE QSFP expansion module
(2) M-Series I/O Aggregator
FTOS v8.3.17.0
(1) 40 GbE QSFP expansion module
(2) Dell 10 Gb Ethernet Pass-through module
IO modules for configs:
M-Series MXL with LAG
interconnect
S-Series S4810P with VLTi
S-Series S4810P with VLTi /
MXL with VLT LAG uplinks
S-Series S4810P with VLTi / M-
Series I/O Aggregator with VLT
LAG uplinks
10 GbE TOR
switches
(2) S-Series S4810P
FTOS v8.3.12.0
Switches for configs:
S-Series S4810P with VLTi
S-Series S4810P with VLTi /
MXL with VLT LAG uplinks
S-Series S4810P with VLTi / M-
Series I/O Aggregator with VLT
LAG uplinks
10 GbE Storage
(4) PS Series PS6110XV:
(24) 146GB 15K SAS disks – vHN63
(2) 10 GbE controllers
Firmware: v6.0.2
Storage arrays for configs:
M-Series MXL with LAG
interconnect
S-Series S4810P with VLTi
S-Series S4810P with VLTi /
MXL with VLT LAG uplinks
S-Series S4810P with VLTi / M-
Series I/O Aggregator with VLT
LAG uplinks